happen. That said, walking down the road, looking at your phone and not at the pavement in front of you is pretty stupid. Staten Island teen, Alexa Longueira fell between four and five feet into a sewer, losing a shoe and more than likely denting her pride....

Atsutoshi Nishida pulled the plug on the company’s HD DVD business. The move surprised analysts. Japanese companies tend to look for acceptable compromises to save corporate pride, and the analysts had expected Toshiba to phase out the format quietly. Read...

in the Asia-Pacific region and it appears that AMD is currently caught in a supercomputer SNAFU with the Chinese government. Supercomputers aren’t just a matter of pure processing horsepower, they are also a matter of national pride. There’s a crazy global...

funding rescue. Galileo, as well as other systems being put into orbit by countries like Russia and China, is designed to compete with the U.S. owned GPS. One of the big reasons for this competition, bar national pride satellite-size comparison, is that the...

the product, perhaps the UI and price. For a technologist and wannabe-ubergeek that is not very satisfying and, quite frankly, I avoid those products. I buy on specs and vendor’s pride. The prouder and more open and engaging a vendor is, the faster he will...

can commonly be applied to the events Apple puts on. He is focused, keeps the presentation elegant and simple, and I doubt there is a single Apple employee, either current or past, who doesn’t feel a moment of pride. The end result is you leave an Apple event...